Made history last year when he became the first person to negotiate the length of the world's fourth longest river, the Mississippi. Swam the 2,360 miles in 68 days, losing 40 pounds of bodyweight and having to deal with boats, whirlpools, a factory that dumped boiling water very close to him in the process and a lightning blast 10 feet away that lifted him right out of the water.
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